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    You might want to ask yourself: do I want to stop the booting process if the device is not available? Will it always be connected while the system is on? If you answer yes to both questions, then I'd say /etc/fstab is a good place. Commented May 15, 2021 at 19:37
  • @EduardoTrápani, ahh, that makes sense. So does booting wait for each fstab entry to successfully complete? If the flash drive were to die, would the result be just that I might be unaware of it and its absence would have implications, or would booting hang, waiting on a mount command that can't be completed? Commented May 15, 2021 at 19:52
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    It depends on other pieces of software (for example systemd, if you have) and also on the mount options you add to fstab. Commented May 15, 2021 at 20:31